From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T06:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to edit a file without loading it all into memory

newer versions of sed can replace text in place in files.

there's also perl's

perl -pi -e 's/to change this/to change that/' filename


On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 05:51 +0900, Jonathan Dobbie wrote:
> I need to change the texture paths in maya files.  The lines are easy to
> find with grep, and I'm able to create the new line easily enough, but
> how can I do this without holding the entire file into memory?  The
> files can be hundreds of megabytes.
> 
> Thanks.